Artículo | 04 Ago, 2016

Motions that specifically mention CEESP, including requests for action by CEESP

By Richard Cellarius (CEESP Deputy Chair)

I have done a survey of the Motions to be considered by the IUCN 2016 World Conservation Congress Members Assembly that mention CEESP or Commissions generally. The texts indicated by the links below are to the revised text prepared following the two-month on-line discussion of the motions as originally submitted by IUCN Members including at least 5 co-sponsors. These texts have been submitted to the Motions Working Group, which will decide which motions will be submitted to an on-line vote of the Members and which will be submitted to the Members Assembly for further discussion. Those motions indicated by an asterisk (*) at the end of the title will automatically be sent to the Members Assembly. Note: if the links to the motion text do not work, the motion can be accessed at portals.iucn.org/congress/motion/xxx, where xxx is the three digit number for the motion.

A list of Motions that specifically mention CEESP, including requests for action by CEESP

034 - Recognising cultural and spiritual significance of nature in protected and conserved areas

066 - Mitigating the impacts of oil palm expansion and operations on biodiversity * (this motion received extensive discussion on-line with participation of TSEAPRISE members; it is scheduled for further discussion at the Congress)

080 - Enabling the Whakatane Mechanism to contribute to conservation through securing communities’ rights

083 - Affirmation of the role of indigenous cultures in global conservation efforts

088 - System of categories for indigenous collective management areas in Central America

097 - Safeguarding indigenous lands, territories and resources from unsustainable developments

Motions that appear to be relevant to CEESP without specific mention of CEESP:

001 - Identifying and archiving obsolete Resolutions and Recommendations to strengthen IUCN policy and to enhance implementation of IUCN Resolutions (participation in motions review is relevant to CEESP)

022 - Recognizing, understanding and enhancing the role of indigenous peoples and local communities in tackling the illegal wildlife trade crisis (directly relevant to CEESP and SULi)

026 - Protected areas and other areas important for biodiversity in relation to environmentally damaging industrial-scale activities and infrastructure development. * (No mention of Commissions per se, but this is directly relevant to SEAPRISE)

029 - Recognizing and respecting the territories and areas conserved by indigenous peoples and local communities (ICCAs) overlapped by protected areas (directly relevant to CEESP)

048 - Protection of primary forests, ancient forests and intact forest landscapes (relevant to CEESP’s role with indigenous Peoples and local Communities)

057 - Protecting the world’s greatest salmon fishery in Bristol Bay, Alaska from large-scale mining (relevant to TSEAPRISE and indigenous governance issues)

063 - Natural Capital * (there is a great interest in CEESP in the Natural Capital discussion)

064 - IUCN Policy on Biodiversity Offsets * (this motion adopts the policy—available at https://www.iucn.org/downloads/iucn_biodiversity_offsets_policy_jan_29_2016.pdf—which is relevant to the work of TSEAPRISE; the motion is scheduled for further discussion at the Congress, probably focusing on the policy text.)

071 - Community Based Natural Resource Management in the State of Hawai'i (relevant to CEESP’s programme of work, 2016-2020)

072 - Aloha+ Challenge Model for Sustainable Development (relevant to CEESP’s programme of work, 2016-2020)

073 - Strengthening business engagement in biodiversity (relevant to TSEAPRISE)

074 - Strengthening corporate biodiversity measurement, valuation and reporting (relevant to TSEAPRISE)

075 - Best practice for industrial-scale development projects (relevant to CEESP, particularly TSEAPRISE)

076 - Prevention, management and resolution of social conflict as a key requirement for conservation and management of ecosystems (may be relevant to TECS)

081 - Investments of development finance institutions: socio-environmental impacts and respect for rights (possible relevance to CEESP, particularly TEMTI and TSEAPRISE)

084 - Improving the means to fight environmental crime (possible relevance to SULi)

089 - Humanity's right to a healthy environment (General relevance to CEESP’s vision and mission)

095 - Development of IUCN policy on biodiversity conservation and synthetic biology (general relevance to CEESP and possibly TSEAPRISE)